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I am dreading what this future looks like as there is now an obfuscated middle layer between me and search results. At least when I search Google I can use my finely honed senses around what is SEO garbage vs a reputable site. And I can infer a lot from the site itself in terms of if they are biased in how they are pushing something.

But with models calling for results and not seeing what Google or others are serving back, and then having the AI give you a summary of reviews or rankings for shopping for example, it is really scary how much more opaque that will get.

More realistically, I expect the AAA titles to move to streaming only cloud computing services, which is what they wanted to do anyway.

I'm hodl with my 2018 Intel mbp for a truly local model capable machine.

I keep seeing that subreddit mentioned in a context that appears trying to push those against this to violent solutions. Almost as if it is an attempt at driving some sort of stochastic action.

How did you set up the auth? Is this a local Android app or a web service connected to the Web API of Messages?

I am desperate for something like this on Android and cannot for the life of me fathom why the messages app does not have a simple keyword-based filter.

I am going to attempt to wire something up with Tasker because it is getting too bad to cope with.

Everyone focuses on Amazon here, but there is an entire industry of e-commerce tools and products and platforms and services designed around optimizing e-commerce sites for sales and other uses.

Agents invalidate a lot of that and so it is an existential threat to many of them. I expect the near future will result in a lot of different results tailored to agents that may actually result in higher priced products for agents browsing versus humans.

Vikunja is a decent project management layer for this I've found.

I'm not paying to read beyond the click bait but if this article but if this is about using hashed identifiers, this is like.... Something that has been used by every major and minor ads platform and advertiser for years. It is nothing new.

What matters is the signals that are joined against the hashes and if what privacy controls they have in place for preventing reidenitfication.

But for those unaware, hashed identifiers are why every publisher has moved to 1p data and logins. Cookies are dead and unreliable so 1p identifiers are the only real way for an advertiser to target a given user with any reliability.

If anyone has access to the full post and wants to share what is novel about this situation, please do. From the bit I could read I would be more surprised if they were not doing this as it is a critical component of every major publisher platform's audience and measurement stack.

Their margin is Bezos' opportunity. I don't know how he could have been more direct.

You seem surprised that a nation who invaded Ukraine unprovoked and has regularly gone out of their way to target civilians and has been found guilty of violating the Geneva Convention would carry out exactly the kind of hybrid warfare they have a reputation for. Curious.

Also a squarely middle class income in a vhcol area like the Bay Area. But a super luxurious lifestyle.

I have been wanting a Bluetooth ring myself so I can just tap my finger and have it trigger my airpods which would initiate live voice or dictation on my phone or computer.

I have not considered input for editing functions but that makes a lot of sense. Maybe a swipe gesture or something with a little capacitive pad on the ring.

YouTube transcripts are increasingly if not completely blocked now. It used to be great to grab content from long tops. I did not have time to watch but wanted to learn about. Now. The only way to do it is to manually copy and paste the transcript information or use computer use. But I cannot easily do it on my VPS it seems unless I'm missing a trick.

I see everybody freaking out about unfettered payment access to one's bank accounts and I keep wondering why people don't jump to the obvious solution of simply only giving it a single purpose or limited fund credit card number from privacy.com or something.

Am I missing something with the concern about ability to constrain the blast radius?